Wild Rose Silent Snow edition by Angel Martinez Romance eBooks
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A huge bear at the door, a handsome, naked stranger in the snow, magic fish, enchanted beards—and Rowan thought his life was odd before.
Content with the quiet isolation of their lake house, Snowden and Rowan Hadley survive on summer jobs and winter hunting, unable to move on since their parents died. Their peace is shattered by a strange, human-acclimated bear who insists on following Rowan like a giant hunting dog and again by the discovery of a naked, surly stranger in the snow.
Both bear and man lead the Hadley brothers into a strange, surreal world where sorcery and RPG software intertwine. Curses and magical traps lie in wait around every turn. Rowan and Snowden will need to adjust their view of how the world works, and quickly, if they want to live through rescuing their enchanted princes.
Wild Rose Silent Snow edition by Angel Martinez Romance eBooks
Rowan and his brother Snowden live on an island in one of the many lakes of (one presumes) Minnesota. The twenty-something fraternal twins are on their own since their parents died. With minor but none-the-less limiting disabilities due to a childhood bout with encephalitis, they rely heavily on each other. With few resources, the dead of winter can be trying but they still manage to get by. Things go from grim to weird when a large grizzly bear that seems eager for human companionship shows up.“Wild Rose, Silent Snow” is a very modern fairy tale. It's not a direct retelling of any story you may remember from childhood, but there are shades of “Beauty and the Beast” as well as “Rumpelstiltskin”. While using classic fairy tale elements such as magic and enchantment, the story depicts them in a completely contemporary setting, making much easier to lose yourself in the story.
The story is mostly told from Rowan's point of view. He is quite a likable character, even if he is a bit of a chatterbox as well as one of those people who remains cheerful despite life dealing them a bad hand. His brother Snowden is a little more of an enigma, in part due to his disability. However, much of the book is just the two young men interacting, so we still get to know them both rather well. The bear is a third character and a rather interesting one.
The magical fantasy elements of the story are introduced gradually, making it that much easier to let yourself slip into the fantasy. That, along with a writing style that doesn't take itself too seriously makes this a fun winter read.
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Wild Rose Silent Snow edition by Angel Martinez Romance eBooks Reviews
I really enjoyed this story. My only complaint is that I wish we had more of Griff and Snow. I guess they were auxiliary characters, but I would've loved more of them in any case. Rowan and Cade were terrific, and I really liked the magical mystery. Honestly, I wish there was more because I wasn't ready for their story to end, but they all four of them get their HEA.
AM is a recent find for me, and I've loved all of her books so far, starting with the Offbeat Crimes series, and now this twisted fairy tale. Great writing, likeable characters, intriguing premises, I could go on... Highly recommend them all.
Rating 3.5 stars
On the surface this take on the modern fairy tale was good. Rowan and Snow, who were struggling to survive a particularly harsh winter, encounter two brothers suffering from an enchantment set by an evil sorcerer. The plot itself was good. Rowen and Snow were wonderful as the MCs. I loved Snow especially. For someone who spoke very little, he was very expressive. I just wish the author had included a little bit more to their back story.
The main problem with the story was that I didn’t feel any connections to the two enchanted brothers. Cade spent the majority of the book as a bear and Griffin was pretty much non-existent throughout most of the story. While we did get to spend a bit more time with Cade than Griffin, he wasn’t a very likable character. Frankly, I liked him more as a bear than I did a human. Griffin, I liked but as I said, we spend very little time with him. So unfortunately, by the time the HEA rolls around, I’m left feeling a little bit let down.
Overall, it was a pleasant story. It just wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be and wasn’t one of the authors best works.
As far as her re-told fairy tales go, Boots is better, but this one is good. I liked how she characterized her twins, making them very easily distinguishable. I would have liked to get to know Griffin better, as it is, he is just kind of a shadow of a character. Her story follows the Rose Red, Snow White fairy tale relatively closely, with her own twists. I generally like Angel Martinez, and I liked this one too, but it's not her best work. For that try Boots if you want another fairy tale, the Offbeat Crimes series if you like paranormal cop/detective stories, or the Brimstone series if you like science fiction. All are excellent.
This is only the second time I've read any version of this lesser-known fairytale, the first being Patricia Wrede's clean, M/F, Elizabethan retelling (Snow White and Rose Red), which was longer, though even she, in her introduction, remarked on how she hadn't realized (as a child loving the original story) just how much happened episodically and w/o explanation, forcing her to devise her own motivations and connections.
Anyway, as always from Angel Martinez, I found all the protagonists quite appealing, with realistic humor and fears, but this novella was a bit hasty, especially "Snow" (Snowden) and Griffin's secondary story, which was essentially instalove. I can tolerate that a little better in a likable fairytale — one which is only 133 pages, according to Goodreads ( said 173, but there's an excerpt of Boots (another AM modernized fairytale) that starts at 94%, and page counts often seem to be calculated more generously anyway, or is Goodreads data not for the "expanded" version?) — but I would have liked to have seen more of Griff. Cade is present with the Hadley brothers, albeit mainly in bear form, for much of the time, so, given that they find out he's a person under a curse reasonably soon, and work out ways to communicate, I could buy Rowan's love for "his grumbly bear". Other than a bit of snappishness, mainly when rejecting being coddled, Cade fortunately doesn't show his saviors much of the anger management difficulty he recounts having had while working at his too-rapidly-expanding business. Both pairs of brothers care deeply about each other, and each brother has his own strengths and weaknesses. Ro and Snow's respective disabilities re. writing and speaking, unusual for fictional romantic leads, are treated with understanding of how their options are limited, but that does not make them any less.
As for the fairytale (magic and action) elements, I think the nasty "dwarf" character (not literally, in this version) was a believable incarnation, if irrational, with some clever modernizations, re. how his beard gets caught, for example. (The magical sturgeon is one of those intriguing unexplained elements to appear along the way, but I doubt AM plans to do more with it. 😕) There's a moment in the climactic confrontation where one of the protags does something near-disastrously unwise, but I can understand how he came to that point.
Rowan and Cade do get a sexy scene or two (Snow and Griff don't), but I <I>think</I> those who prefer their fairytales cleaner could skip/skim over that, and still get a light tale to enjoy, with only a few other lines to object to.
The proofreading is excellent. I didn't catch any true errors (just one hyphenation maybe).
Rowan and his brother Snowden live on an island in one of the many lakes of (one presumes) Minnesota. The twenty-something fraternal twins are on their own since their parents died. With minor but none-the-less limiting disabilities due to a childhood bout with encephalitis, they rely heavily on each other. With few resources, the dead of winter can be trying but they still manage to get by. Things go from grim to weird when a large grizzly bear that seems eager for human companionship shows up.
“Wild Rose, Silent Snow” is a very modern fairy tale. It's not a direct retelling of any story you may remember from childhood, but there are shades of “Beauty and the Beast” as well as “Rumpelstiltskin”. While using classic fairy tale elements such as magic and enchantment, the story depicts them in a completely contemporary setting, making much easier to lose yourself in the story.
The story is mostly told from Rowan's point of view. He is quite a likable character, even if he is a bit of a chatterbox as well as one of those people who remains cheerful despite life dealing them a bad hand. His brother Snowden is a little more of an enigma, in part due to his disability. However, much of the book is just the two young men interacting, so we still get to know them both rather well. The bear is a third character and a rather interesting one.
The magical fantasy elements of the story are introduced gradually, making it that much easier to let yourself slip into the fantasy. That, along with a writing style that doesn't take itself too seriously makes this a fun winter read.
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